Susan Strachan Johnson

teaching

Susan is affiliated with the Canadian Embroiderers’ Guild Guelph and a member since 2005 of Connections Fibre Artists.

Trained as a painter, and a stitcher since 2003, she is about to complete City and Guilds UK Level 3 Certificate in Embroidery, and continuing on to the Level 2 Diploma. Susan also studies at an advanced level with Jane Dams.

Multiple award winner (Best in Show Threadworks 2003, Fibre Art Award Insights 2006, Honourable Mentions in the Ontario Juried Quilt Show and the Grand National Quilt Show).

Susan offers at the Intermediate level: Soft Rock (sculpture & encrusting), Distress for Success (pulled threads & embellishment), and Photo Transfer Techniques.

Susan has developed a design course called CPR (Cooperative Problem-solving & Recycling).

Fees are $30 per hour.
Able to travel, and offering private
and semi-private lessons in studio. Availability: By arrangement.

courses coming up

Wellington County Museum & Archives
One week workshop beginning Monday, July 21, 2008

Week 3, Distressed for Success, Fibre Techniques, July 21-25
Pulled threads, frayed edges, tearing, and deconstructing: find out how all that aggression can help you create a successful piece of fibre art. Then learn a novel Cooperative Problem-solving and Recycling technique (CPR) which could help you transform and finish that unhappy UFO you’ve had for years. A painter for ten years before turning to fibre art, Susan Strachan Johnson has since won several awards, including Threadworks 2004 and the Insights 2006 Fibre Art Award. She has just completed her City & Guilds stitched textiles Certificate and is already in demand for workshops in the area. A sewing machine is useful, but not essential, since assembly can de done by hand.

Registration Information from:
Wellington County Museum & Archives
RR1, Fergus, ON, N1M 2W3
Tel: 519-846-0916 ext 221
email info@wcm.on.ca
Cost per one-week workshop is $208.95